Haven't read the book as of yet. Wonder if he has a chapter called "Rape of the Common Man" to discuss corruption from top to bottom and the ineffective legal system!

11:49 am March 2, 2011

Jeffrey Archer wrote:

Mihir Sharma doesn't have a lot of credibility, so I am not sure why you cite and link to his review, if you want to offer a critique of unoriginal, you must cite what would constitute originality. If you cannot do that, then the critique lacks credibility. It seems to me that Sharma takes affront that books on India are being written by non residents or foreigners which seems to be the basic crux of the offence he takes rather than clichéd prose., and that is highly neurotic and insecure.

7:01 am March 8, 2011

Cheap deal on a Real Indian wrote:

But, Mr.Ghiridas, I grew up in India and move to the United States 15 years ago. Yet, I have a hard time explaining India to my American friends since the mechanics of caste, regional language, food and clothing styles are bewildering to everyone but the native Indian. So just because you happened to spend time in Mumbai does not give you the authority to speak on behalf of all Indians. To most Indians, while you may not be as alien as either a Japanese or Norwegian, you still are alien. Moreover, how can you simultaneously speak on behalf of a Manglorean Brahmin, a Jat Singh from Chandigarh, a scheduled caste man from Bihar or a tribal from either Mizoram or Nagaland? You cannot. I would say that even Indians living in India cannot speak on behalf of all Indians for the same complex reasons delineated above. There is only one thing MOST Indians agree about in totality: Cricket. So, write a book on, say, the Ayodhya verdict before you pretend to write THE book on India.

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